Extreme Science

Two Hard (Rationalist) Science Fiction Novels Both works share a similar conceptual framework, exploring deep social dilemmas and extreme forms of love. Quantum Algocracy A story about social polarization. After the death of his wife, Isaac is summoned by the Wandering Sages—self-cultivated quantum processors embodied in physical forms who govern the Milky Way—to witness the upcoming implementation of a discovery that could bring down the entire algocratic order of the universe. Together with Peter and María, he must travel to Darwin, a Luddite planet that despises technology, to test ...

NEW RELEASE ~ WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT Did you know a single bolt of lightning can stretch 515 miles across the sky, farther than the distance from London to Geneva? Every fact is sourced from peer-reviewed academic research and official scientific records. This True Verified Facts book delivers 400+ facts about the planet's most extreme and baffling weather, each one built to educate, entertain, and arm you with knowledge worth sharing at any table. Inside This Book: Why one 1925 tornado is still the deadliest in US history, and how far it traveled without ever lifting What fell from a ...

A book covering the topic of self-defense from a shocking, firsthand perspective. The subjects of criminal violence, self-defense, lethal force, mindset, firearms training, and concealment have never been introduced so comprehensively in one place.

Marco and the other Animorphs have managed to find out where the Yeerks are planning to build their next ground-based Kandrona. That's a good thing. But the location is supposed to be somewhere near the North Pole. That's a bad thing. The Animorphs know that the Yeerks are a "cold-blooded" species, but this is a little nuts! Who wants to be near the North Pole without Arctic morphs - and wearing spandex?

What if the government decided to invent a great lie to justify a disastrous war? What would happen to the people who know the truth? Extreme Prejudice delivers an explosive, high tension expose of the real facts surrounding the CIA's advance warning of 9/11 and an insider's look at Iraqi pre-war intelligence, told by one of the very few US assets covering Iraq before the war.

His name: Miles Flint. His occupation: Retrieval Artist. His job: find the Disappeared - outlaws on the run, wanted for crimes against alien cultures. The catch: Flint isn't working on the side of the law anymore.

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce “Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and...

In 2008, Lynn Barber's passion for birding led her to drive, fly, sail, walk, stalk, and sit in search of birds in 25 states and three provinces. Traveling more than 175,000 miles, she set a 21st century record at the time, second to only one other person in history. Over 272 days, Barber observed 723 species of birds in North America north of Mexico.

In this groundbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and first-hand reporting with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes like big wave legend Laird Hamilton, big mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and skateboarding pioneer Danny Way, Kotler explores the frontier science of “flow”, an optimal state of consciousness in which we perform and feel our best.

The hospital was supposed to heal you. It had other plans. Twenty tales of surgeries that take more than they remove, donors who refuse to stay dead, and medical records that write themselves into flesh. In these pages, the operating room becomes a site of violation, and every procedure leaves something behind that wasn't in the consent forms. A burn survivor's grafted skin begins remembering a life she never lived. A surgeon's transplanted hands practice procedures while she sleeps. A transcriptionist discovers that typing a surgery makes it real. A patient's body produces something every ...

New paramedic Dean Flynn is fresh out of the academy. When he gets assigned to the unknown backwater ambulance Station U, he wonders what he did wrong. Then Dean learns that his patients aren't your normal 911 callers. Dean and his partner Brynne Garvey serve the creatures of myth and legend living alongside their normal human neighbors in Elk City. With patients that are vampires, werewolves, fairies and more, will Dean survive his first days on the new job? Will his patients? Not all is well on the streets of Elk City, and some humans are striking out at their mythical neighbors.

Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider modern technology. Those feats of endurance now seem impossible in an age where we take comfort for granted. But what if we could regain some of our lost evolutionary strength by simulating the environmental conditions of our forbears? Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney takes up the challenge to find out: Can we hack our bodies and use the environment to stimulate our inner biology?

Narrated by the author: Experience the Southern California wildfires through Jacob Soboroff’s eyes—and voice. New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from...

Are you ready to explore the darkest depths of the ocean, the blazing heat of the desert, and the frozen peaks of the tallest mountains—all without leaving your home? 100 Wild Facts About Extreme Animals and Places takes you on a breathtaking journey to the most jaw-dropping corners of our planet. This isn’t just a book of facts—it’s an adventure designed for curious kids, daring teens, and anyone who loves to discover the extraordinary. Did you know that some deep-sea creatures create their own light in total darkness? Or that there’s an animal so tough it can survive the vacuum ...

Hyperpolitics describes the paradoxical state of affairs today, in which politicization seemingly has few political consequences. Anton Jäger's incisive appraisal sets the benchmark by which future histories of the present will be judged. Politics is back.

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents an important examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offering a vital new perspective on where we are headed, how we can prepare, and what is at...

Get the third box set of the best-selling Extreme Medical Services medical urban-fantasy series, and grab your discount on three books at once! This set includes books 7 through 9.

Continue this action-packed supernatural medical series with three more audiobooks in one set! This set includes audiobooks four to six in the Extreme Medical Services series.

Paramedic Dean Flynn works every day to heal the creatures of myth and legend in Elk City. When a human hate group declares war on his patients, Dean, with his angel girlfriend and the vampire lord of Elk City, must work with all the forces of good to fight terrorists hidden in their midst. Even after getting framed for murder, Dean uses magic, prophecy, and all his paramedic skills to save his patients. With his lifelong dreams shattered and taken away from him, will he have the strength to make the choice when the time comes to fulfill his destiny?

New paramedic Dean Flynn is fresh out of the academy. When he gets assigned to the unknown backwater ambulance Station U, he wonders what he did wrong. Then he learns his patients aren't your normal 911 callers. Dean and his partner, Brynne Garvey, serve the creatures of myth and legend in Elk City. With patients who are vampires, werewolves, fairies, and more, will Dean survive his first days on the new job? Will his patients?